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The space tourism firm could fly a cargo mission as soon as Monday as it seeks to get back into the commercial space race.

Saturday’s launch again ended in the loss of both Starship stages, prompting another FAA mishap investigation and potential delays to NASA’s Artemis moon mission program.

We try to answer that question and more in this week’s Future of FLYING newsletter.

Musk’s previous predictions haven’t come to fruition, but this time, a fresh launch license backs the SpaceX CEO’s timeline.

The agency had grounded Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital rocket, which it uses to bring paying customers to the edge of the atmosphere.

After returning its mobile launch pad to Kennedy Space Center in August, NASA is putting the pieces together for its next marquee mission.

The FAA pushed back on CEO Elon Musk’s assertion that the world’s most powerful rocket is ready for a second test flight after an April explosion.

Elon Musk and SpaceX continue to provide hopeful updates on the next Starship flight, but red tape may delay the launch.

In the lawsuit, environmental groups accuse the FAA of making environmental concessions to SpaceX.

By Elon Musk’s standards, Thursday’s test flight was “a success.”